Word: drews
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...seizing the Greek tanker Manuela, bound for Beira with 16,000 tons of oil, Britain has reinforced her sanctions against Ian Smith's regime. The British drew on a resolution passed by the Security Council to put an "armed party" on the Manuela. Had the tanker reached Beira, the oil would have flowed through a pipeline controlled by the Anglo-Portuguese Lonrho Company to the Rhodesian refinery in Umtali...
Before he was through, Elson had read 40 books in direct preparation for the story, as well as Researcher Monica Dowdall's review of the concepts of God in religion and philosophy since Xenophanes. For the more immediate facets of the story, Elson and Senior Editor William Forbis drew on the results of more than 300 interviews conducted by 32 TIME correspondents around the world. The reporters had talked to theologians, philosophers, scientists, artists, teachers and students, among others, discussing notions of God that varied from pop atheism to the faithfully traditional...
...pigments in whatever was handy, even stale beer, to touch up details that would provide some visual reference for his baffled viewers. Once, a colorful Constable outshone one of Turner's seascapes. Turner put onto his work a splotch of bright red the size of a shilling that drew eyes away from the Constable. The next day Turner shaped it into a channel buoy...
Britain's Plan. Ryan also draws on long-forgotten documents to demolish the notion that Franklin Roosevelt drew up the zones of occupation for Germany. Actually, the plan was Britain's. F.D.R. was first shown the occupation plans in 1943, when he was aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on his way to the Cairo and Teheran conferences. He was both ir ritated and troubled, says Ryan, because the British plan, called Operation Rankin, placed the U.S. zone in the southern German provinces. "We should go as far as Berlin," Roosevelt said. "The U.S. should have Berlin. The Soviets...
Roosevelt even drew the zones he favored on a National Geographic map, placing Berlin on the boundary line between the U.S. and Soviet zones. He held stubbornly to his position throughout the war, but his wishes were never made known or they went unheeded. At Yalta, when the Big Three formally accepted the British plan, Roosevelt was too ill and dispirited to continue the fight. No one protested that provision had not been made for Anglo-American access to ruined Berlin. Stalin didn't complain, either...